Quotes About Recognition

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

I find it very funny as well as touching that people associate me with these characters I play and form a connect with them.

I never expect those type of dudes to even listen to my music but for one of those Juggalos to come up to me like, 'Man, that 'All My Life' record, man you was talking to me.' That struck me like, 'Damn, maybe people, you never know who's listening and who you might be touching with your music.'

My name can't be that tough to pronounce!

Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: 'There he is again. It's Fabian.' It's a very tough thing. Everybody wants to discount your talent because you have become so... I don't know... a god, if you will.

Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

I find it tough to ride my bike around Bandra because people recognise me now.

It's kind of tough to get noticed. Sure, I can kick my leg over my head, but how do I get noticed?

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

It's not happened overnight for me or my brother as well. Maybe, it's even a bit tougher for people who have a name.

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.

Comedy is very tough to do, it never gets the awards but it's the toughest task.

The toughest challenge for any actor is to get accepted and loved by the audience.

Championships, I get it, it's very, very important. But I also know that my competitors will probably say that I'm one of the toughest competitors and toughest guys to beat. That's all I really care about, is having the respect of them.

Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.

We had such a huge fan base, they couldn't ignore us anymore. MTV was playing us on 'TRL.' We even did a TRL-sponsored tour that was Good Charlotte and us.

The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'

Some people are still not into us. That makes sense. We haven't really done a lot of press. We haven't put ourselves out there in ways that a lot of people would know we are still around. Unless you tour or record, they don't know you are around.

A fan would get an autograph and that was that. If we didn't tour again for five years, we wouldn't remember them.

There are guys you've never heard of who drive the ball better than anybody I've seen on the PGA Tour.

We were up for a Grammy, we sold millions of records and we toured the world I don't know how many times. It was insane.

Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me.

Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.

The best part of a MacArthur is having some pressure taken off from touring relentlessly.